Group Members

• Emily Kuo (ekuo8)
• Gil O'Neil (goneil)
• Max Stein-Golenbock (msteing)

GR1 - User Observation and Analysis

GR2 - Designs

GR3 - Paper Prototyping

GR4 - Computer Prototype

GR5 - Implementation

GR6 - User Testing

GR2: Designs

Scenario

Bartholomew is an animal lover. He decides he wants to raise money for an animal shelter near his house. He figures that the best way to do this will be to plan an event. Of course, he wants his event to be as successful as possible, which means getting as many attendees as possible and making the experience fun. He loves cooking and thinks a cooking event would be fun. He considers different options for events related to cooking and decides to do an iron-chef themed cooking competition. He realizes that he will need ingredients for the participants to cook, a kitchen to host the event, kitchen tools, as well as prizes for the winners. He’s not sure where to get all these things, so he begins by looking for cooking-specific businesses to donate to his event.

Individual Design Sketches

Emily's Sketches:

Gil's Sketches:

Sketch 1: 

In my first sketch, I attempted to design for efficiency.  The idea being that most people who use our site would be interested in searching for business connections and creating an event would be a secondary thought.  The screens are laid out as follows:

1. Login screen (or login as guest)
2. After login you are directed to the Sponsor Search
   1. Have choice to input things useful to events (event type, donation type, charity, event scale)
   2. After hitting search, the screen updates and summary panes of businesses are shown below
   3. Search/filtering options available and are buttons (not drop-down) for efficiency.
3. Business pane expanded
   1. at a glance summary of business with words of interest highlighted and donation goals bar graph showing how far from the quota the business is
4. Option to create event is displayed on the search page and clicking that button autofills several fields in your event for better efficiency.  (creating an event would be similar to saving a search)

Sketch 2: 

I attempted to make my second sketch for small screen users. The buttons are very large and not too much info is displayed on any screen. 

The process is as follows:

1. User loggin
2. create event screen
3. business search
4. Clicking on business displayed in slideshow brings you to business profile w/ several options 

Sketch 3:

This design was more focused on the business side of things. I tried to make it easy for a business to quickly add their business.

Process:

1. Login screen (login required)
2. Choose business or client (if first login)
3. Create your business.  If you are getting too many requests, you can move the slider to show that you have exceeded your donations limit.  This will let clients know that you are not accepting requests.

Max's Sketches:

Designs, Storyboards, and Analysis

Client Facing Designs

Design 1:

Design 2:

Design 3:

Business Facing Designs

From our interview, it did not seem like businesses ever look for people to give to.  It is usually the event planners that need to approach the businesses.  The problems that the businesses seemed to face were:

1. Too many donation requests
2. Cause of event not matching that of the business

Design 1:

When a business creates or edits their page, it will be similar to creating/editing a social networking profile.  The idea is to describe the business.  Clients can view this page if they click on the business in a search.

Features of this design that will help meet business goals are:

• Listing causes on the profile will discourage clients with events catering to different causes from contacting the business.  This helps with both 1 and 2.
• Slider at the right is to indicate how close the business is to their donation quota/budget.  The user would see this and would be likely to avoid businesses with filled budgets.  Also when clients search for businesses, one search algorithm could take into account the budget indicator and show businesses who are almost at the maximum later in the list. This helps with 1.
• The blurb allows the business to tell the client anything else they would need to know.

Because businesses do not often look for events to sponsor, and for  simplicity, we do not give the business the option to search through events.

Connections will be facilitated through the website (similar to linked-in's inMail).  This way, all of the requests are grouped in one place.  Since the contact goes through our website, we can moderate messages and evaluate if the causes of the event match with the causes of the business, among other things.

Design 2: